War Crimes Charge

May 23, 1985

OTTAWA — Canadian military officials got eyewitness statements after World War II that SS Maj. Gen. Wilhelm Mohnke was directly responsible for the execution of three unarmed Canadian soldiers and indirectly responsible for the deaths of 49 others. The Canadian government says it is investigating the possibility of extraditing Mohnke, who lives in Hamburg, West Germany. His response to an Ottawa newspaper: ''I will . . . tell you that none, repeat none, was shot on my order.''